Chestnut Farmhouse

Chestnut Farmhouse is a farmhouse, originally dating to the mid-17th century, with later 17th-century extensions and a refronting in the 18th century. Further alterations occurred in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of limestone rubble, with rendered elevations and a pantiled roof featuring raised coped verges, a brick ridge, and gable stacks. It was originally a T-plan with a cross-passage and rear wing, later infilled on either side of the wing; a ridge stack stands at the original gable end.

The farmhouse has two storeys and four windows, with three bays to the right featuring a ground floor 16-pane sash window, a 6-panelled door topped with a pediment supported by brackets, and two sashes; the first floor displays two 12-pane sashes and a central 9-pane sash, all set in exposed window boxes. The bay to the left has a 16-pane sash at ground floor and a 12-pane sash at first floor. The property has a plinth, parapet, and coping.

The left return has a two-span roof with a raised coped parapet, and a straight joint indicates a previous extension. A blocked door with a brick segmental head is visible on the left side. The right return is unrendered, and a two-storey dairy block extends further than the front gable; it features a door and sidelight with iron stanchions, both with a cambered stone head. To the rear, the gable end of the original rear wing has a three-light casement window on the ground floor, a 16-pane sash window in an exposed box on the first floor, and a two-light attic casement. A two-storey addition in the angle to the right includes a 20th-century window, a plain-framed door, and a 19th-century three-light casement. The gable end of the rear wing was curtailed when the addition was built, and extends lower to the left. A two-storey former dairy and cheese room is attached to the left, featuring a ground-floor door, a two-light casement, and an external flight of nine steps leading to a cheese room door with wooden louvred openings on either side. A lean-to is attached to the left.

Inside, the ground floor includes a fine studded door with strap hinges, and the front room to the right has a former wide fireplace with an oven recess. An 18th-century cupboard with shaped shelves and a curved back is also present, as are chamfered and stopped spine beams with hooks. The central room features 19th-century panelling and boxed beams, while the end room has dado panelling and window shutters. On the first floor, the spine beams lack stops and curve towards the end wall to the right, potentially the location of a former stair, now replaced by a 19th-century straight staircase. A first-floor room in the rear wing has a fireplace with Bristol delft tiles beneath a 19th-century hob-grate.